At the Verville Draw on Omaha Beach, the Americans faced one of the most lethal choke points of D-Day - a paved exit trapped under overlapping German fire from WN71 to WN73. We follow the chaos of the ...

On the eastern edge of Omaha Beach stands WN60, one of the most important and overlooked German strongpoints of D-Day. Built ...

The soldiers were killed in a mine blast aboard a Coast Guard landing craft headed for Omaha Beach on June 6, 1944.

The largest amphibious invasion in history was launched on June 6, 1944, when Allied troops landed on the beaches of Normandy to liberate Europe from the grip of Nazi Germany. For this year’s 81st ...

A soldier from Virginia who died on D-Day has been accounted for 81 years after he was killed, officials said in a news release. The company disembarked from their landing craft at around 7 a.m.

PARIS (AP) — Charles Shay, a decorated Native American veteran who was a 19-year-old U.S. Army medic when he landed on Omaha Beach on D-Day and helped save lives, died on Wednesday. He was 101. Shay ...

Shay was a combat medic assigned to an assault battalion in the first wave of attack on D-Day, June 6, 1944. (Virginia Mayo/AP Photo) Charles Shay, a decorated Native American veteran who was a ...